CIS - Key Persons
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor, Psychology
Enzymology of DNA replication, mitochondrial DNA, nucleic acid biochemistry, and non-canonical DNA structures.
Hello! My name is Alyssa Persano, and I am a senior majoring in biology and minoring in political thought. I am from San Diego, California currently on the pre-med track. I have been a student researcher in the McVey Lab since Fall 2021, and I am currently working on a senior honors thesis. I was a Bio 14 Lab LA in Spring 2022 and a Bio 13 Lecture LA in Fall 2022 and now in Fall 2023. In addition, I am Laidlaw Scholar and I serve as an E-board member for LCS Tutoring. Outside of school, I work as an urgent care medical assistant. I am also the undergraduate student worker for the biology department, which I greatly enjoy. The biology department is my home at Tufts; I am incredibly excited to serve as an ambassador and am always available as a resource.
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- Director of Marketing and Communications
As Director of Marketing and Communications, Amanda leads the marketing and communications strategies for the School of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts. She and her team provide communication, marketing, and editorial support for the schools with the goal of enhancing the reputation and visibility of Arts and Sciences to audiences both within and beyond Tufts.
Prior to joining Tufts, Amanda held various roles in both the corporate and nonprofit sectors. Most recently, she was the head of Corporate Communications at AXA Art Americas Corporation, an international specialty fine art insurer, where she oversaw the communications and marketing strategy for the company's business across North and South America. She has also held positions at Harvard Medical School and Preserve Rhode Island. Amanda received her BA in Art History and Architectural Studies, magna cum laude, from Tufts University and her MS in Integrated Marketing with a concentration in Digital Marketing from New York University.
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- Consultant
- Professor of the Practice
Amy Lischko is a consultant and frequent speaker on the subject of health care reform. In the past several years, she has spoken at many national policy conferences and has provided consulting services to Academy Health, Mathematica Policy Research, the National Governor's Association, and individual states. Amy was formerly the Commissioner of Health Care Finance and Policy and the Director of Health Care Policy under governor Mitt Romney. She served in senior positions in the Commonwealth for over 14 years. In her roles with the Commonwealth, Amy provided leadership during the rapid restructuring of the Massachusetts health care system. Some of the activities she was involved in include: Spearheading the Commonwealth's efforts to provide greater transparency to provider cost and quality information; Key member of the governor's team who crafted the administration's innovative health care reform bill in Massachusetts; Principal investigator on numerous federal and private grants to improve access to health insurance, and improve the delivery of health care services; Facilitated collaborative efforts with public and private organizations to implement quality improvement initiatives across the health care system. Amy's research activities include developing and evaluating strategies to increase access to health insurance and to make health care more affordable. She is also interested in making academic research more accessible to policymakers.
Hi! My name is Ana Dias, and I am a junior from the Greater Boston area. I am majoring in biology and biotechnology, and I am doing genetics research at the McVey lab. I am a member of the Laidlaw Scholars program and Best Buddies. Additionally, I am co-president of LCS Tutoring, and I will begin tutoring for the StAAR Center in the fall. I am really looking forward to serving as a resource for undergraduate students interested in biology through the ambassadors' program.
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- Department Chair
- Professor and Department Chair of Education
The psychology of mathematical thinking, teachers' and students' understanding and use of inscriptions, multiplicative reasoning, applications of psychometric modeling for assessment and research in mathematics education.
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- Administrative Assistant to Dean Heather Nathans, Dean Ayanna Thomas, and Dean Samuel Thomas
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- Undergraduate Program Coordinator
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- Research Assistant and PhD Candidate at MIT Media Lab
After earning a Master's in Child Study and Human Development at Tufts in 2015, Anneli went on to pursue a PhD at the MIT Media Lab. She currently studies the development of educational technology and the development of universal curriculums that target all types of learners.
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- Administrative Coordinator, Registration and Admissions
Hi! My name is Asher Liu and I'm a junior studying biology on the pre-med track from Chicago! I'm currently a research assistant at the Wilkinson Lab at Boston Children's Hospital and I'm the VP of Tufts After School Tutoring and Enrichment (TASTE). I can't wait to be a resource for all prospective and current Biology students.
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- Dean of Research, School of Arts and Sciences / Professor of Psychology
As Dean of Research, Ayanna coordinates strategic planning and implementation for research across the school. She serves as primary advisor to the Dean and works to support department chairs and faculty in research matters. In addition, Ayanna is a key liaison between the Office of the Vice Provost of Research and our faculty in promoting and facilitating the research mission of the school and the university. She manages the school's Research Administration team and sits on the University-wide Research Council. She also oversees the Visiting and Early Research Scholars' Experience (VERSE) Program.
Ayanna joined the Tufts faculty in 2007 as a member of the Department of Psychology. Explore her faculty profile.
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- Henry Bromfield Pearson Professor of Natural Science / Control of Locomotion and the Neural Processes That Organize Sensory and Motor Information
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- Senior Research Analyst at EVERFI
Brian first started working as a public school therapist before transitioning to graduate school to pursue a PhD at Eliot-Pearson. He currently works on EVERFI's research team to drive social change to 30+ million learners worldwide.
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- Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences / Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences / Professor of Education
- Professor and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Graduate Arts & Sciences / Professor, Education / Dean of Academic Affairs, the School of Arts and Sciences
As Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Bárbara supports all GSAS programs and serves as the liaison between students, faculty, and administration on all aspects of graduate education within the school. This includes key initiatives, such as strengthening the quality and diversity of the graduate student body and integrating career and professional development training into our students' education. The Dean of GSAS also serves as an Academic Dean of Arts and Sciences, and supervises the departments of Education, Occupational Therapy, and Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, as well as the Museum Studies, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice Leadership, and Data Analytics programs.
Before taking on these deanships, Bárbara served as a Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences from 2014 to 2021 and as an Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion for Arts and Sciences from 2019 to 2021. She began her career at Tufts in 2001 in the Department of Education. Explore her faculty profile.
Linguistics; literacy, sociolinguistic development; dyslexia in African-American children; language of children's cartoons; children's name-calling
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- Dean of Students and Chief Student Life Officer
As Dean of Students and Chief Student Life Officer, Dean Lizarríbar oversees multiple important student-facing departments for the Schools of Arts, Sciences and Engineering, including the Office of Student Life, Residential Life, Campus Life, Health and Wellness, and the Career Center.
Camille brings a wealth of experience in the areas of student affairs, academia, and law. Before joining Tufts in July 2020, she served as Dean of Student Affairs and Senior Associate Dean of Yale College, where she had led and oversaw the student affairs division since 2016. From 2010 to 2016, she was the Residential College Dean of Yale's Ezra Stiles College and advised over 500 undergraduate students on academic and co-curricular matters. She also served as Dean of the First-Year Scholars at Yale Program from 2013 to 2016, where she advised students from under-resourced schools and low-income backgrounds during their summer before matriculation, and designed and implemented related programs and initiatives, including diversity trainings for student counselors. In addition to her administrative roles, Camille has taught at Yale, Harvard, and Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe in San Juan. She has worked as an attorney in both private practice and government, and was a clerk in the Federal District Court, District of Puerto Rico. Finally, Camille has coupled her expertise in law and her skill at languages as a translator in the private sector and as a court interpreter for the District and Superior courts in the Boston metropolitan area.
Camille holds a bachelor's degree in comparative literature and in French language and literature from Brandeis University. She also holds a PhD in comparative literature from Harvard University, as well as a JD from Harvard Law School, and has studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and at Istituto Linguistico Italiano Dante Alighieri in Siena. Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Camille is fluent in four languages: Spanish, English, French, and Italian.
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- Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Arts and Sciences
As Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Carmen Lowe oversees academic advising, academic support, and educational enrichment programs for undergraduate students in the School of Arts and Sciences. She leads our team of Associate Deans of Undergraduate Advising, as well as the Scholar Development, Pre-Health Advising, the Senior Honors Thesis Programs, and the SPIRIT Fund. Her role includes upholding and interpreting educational policies and serving as decision maker for student appeals related to academic records and academic standing.
As an undergraduate English major at Grand Valley State University, Dean Lowe was a "first-gen" student. She then went on to teach adult literacy to factory workers in an auto plant near her hometown of Detroit, MI. She came to Tufts for graduate studies, earning both her MA and PhD in English. Dean Lowe has taught numerous advising courses, expository writing in the English department, the Writing Fellows Seminar in the Experimental College, and Representing the Environment and the Senior Seminar in American Studies. She served as Director of the Academic Resource Center for several years. Carmen also co-directs Tufts' REAL Program (Resumed Education for Adult Learners).
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- Associate Dean Emerita / the School of Arts and Sciences
- Associate Dean Emerita, the School of Arts and Sciences / Department
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- Professor and Department Chair
Genetics and Molecular Biology. Genome instability, particularly at sites of repetitive and structure-forming DNA.
I'm Catie, a sophomore from Portland, Oregon majoring in biology and biotechnology and minoring in Spanish. I'm on the pre-med track and interested in an M.D./Ph.D. I do research in the Mirkin Lab, tutor for the StAAR center, and am a Bio 13 Lab TA and an EMT. Outside of academics, I walk dogs for Tufts Animal Aid and am captain of the club volleyball team.
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- Assistant Professor / Economics
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- Lecturer
- Lecturer, English
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- User Experience Researcher at Google
After graduating from Tufts with a Master's in Child Study and Human Development, Christina has gone on to serve in a plethora of different roles - from Senior Associate at Strategy Insight Group to Content Producer at Speakaboos to her current position at User Experience Researcher at Google.
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- Professor
- Professor, Eliot - Pearson Department of Child Study & Human Development
Early childhood education, school success of young children at risk due to poverty, parenting and family-school partnerships in diverse ethnocultural communities, culturally inclusive STEM curriculum, community-based research collaborations.
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- Executive Administrative Dean
- Representative for the School of Arts
As Executive Administrative Dean, Chris Helmuth is the lead administrative representative for the School of Arts and Sciences overseeing the effective use of the school's resources including personnel, budgets, technology, and facilities. He is also responsible for strategic planning and assessment, financial management and oversight, space planning, and school-based technology.
Previously, Chris served from 2015 to 2018 as Director of Budget Services at Tufts for the Boston Health Sciences Campus including the School of Medicine, the School of Dental Medicine, the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, and the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA). Chris has a wealth of experience in financial and administrative management in higher education. Prior to coming to Tufts, he worked at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for nine years, most recently as the Director of Finance & Administration for the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases. Chris earned his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Emerson College where he wrote literary fiction, and his BA in English from Grove City College.
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- Professor and Director of Environmental Studies
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- Lecturer
- Lecturer, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts
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- Museum Education Director
Child art; art therapy; curriculum development; teacher education; community arts; children/young adult literature; interdisciplinary literacy
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- Lecturer
- Lecturer, Museum Studies / Department
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- Lecturer
- Lecturer / Biology
- Lecturer, Biology / Department
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- Professor, Political Science / Department
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- Lecturer / Psychology / Engineering / Applied Psychology, Consumer Product Design, Usability Metrics, Information Visualization, and Research Field Methods.
- Lecturer, Psychology
Cognitive development; developmental theory; creativity; intellectual development; developmental transitions; expertise; extreme giftedness and creativity; educational and developmental theory.
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- Stern Family Professor of Engineering
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- Dean
- Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences
- Leadership Team
James M. Glaser is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences
List of past deans of the school
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- Dean of Students and Chief
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- Associate Dean for Programs and Administration
I am Dillon Arrigan and am a senior majoring in Biology and International Relations. I am from the greater Washington DC area, though my family just moved to Boston this spring. Outside of classes, I spend my time primarily doing research in the Wolfe Lab. My research interests lie broadly in microbial ecology, microbial community assembly, and food microbiology. In addition to research, I am an LA for BIO 55 (Fall 2023) and am the communications specialist for the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts. Looking to the future, I am hoping to get my PhD in microbiology! Outside of academics/work, I am part of Enchanted A cappella, and I love all things food related from cooking and baking to trying new restaurants. I am excited to assist students in exploring all things biology related Tufts has to offer.
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- Director and Chief Curator, Tufts University Art Galleries
As Director and Chief Curator of the Tufts University Art Galleries, Dina oversees the temporary exhibitions and public programs at the Aidekman Arts Center on the Medford campus and at the SMFA at Tufts Boston campus in addition to the university's Permanent Art Collection. She also organizes contemporary art exhibitions and chairs the university's Gifts of Art and Public Art Committees.
Clinical aspects of family and child development; pediatric and health psychology; stress and coping
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- Director of Tisch Library
- Tisch Library Director
As Tisch Library Director, Dorothy supports the mission of the university and the Schools of Arts, Sciences and Engineering. In addition to managing day-to-day operations, her responsibilities include facilitating and managing teams and resources for large and small projects involving faculty, staff, students and senior administration. She also oversees and supports the Lilly Music Library and the W. Van Alan Clark, Jr. Library at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts.
Prior to coming to Tufts, Dorothy was the director for university planning and assessment in the President's office at Drew University, where she worked for 11 years in positions of increasing responsibility. She served in the library as head of collections and metadata services, participated in the Library/IT review team, and led various groups in developing and implementing the library's strategic plan. During her career, she has been deeply involved in leading change and setting priorities in a rapidly evolving, technology-driven environment. For five years, Dorothy was an elected official, serving on the school board of Madison, NJ, and rising up to the presidency of the board. Dorothy received her BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Georgetown University, and her MLIS from Rutgers University.
Dr. Erik Hett received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in the lab of Dr. Eric Rubin, studying protein-protein interactions important for regulating cell division in mycobacteria. His postdoctoral research was conducted in the lab of Dr. Deborah Hung at Harvard, Broad Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital, where he conducted phenotypic high-throughput screens and utilized chemoproteomics for target ID. He previously was a chemical biologist in the MedChem Department at Pfizer and led a chemical biology team in the mechanisms and pathways group at Biogen. He is currently the Head of Experimental and Chemical Biology at the Merck Exploratory Science Center in Cambridge, MA.
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- Product Manager at Google
After graduating from Tufts with his Master's in Child Study and Human Development in 2015, Dylan went on to become a Product Manager for Google.
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- Lecturer
- Lecturer, International Literary and Cultural Studies / Department
Neurodevelopmental disorders; autism spectrum disorder; sexuality education; social perception; eye tracking; dimensional measurement of psychological symptoms
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- Professor Emerita, English
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- Associate Professor / Department of Community Health
- Health Services Researcher
Dr. Marfeo is a health services researcher with expertise in development and psychometric evaluation of patient reported outcomes measures (PROMs) and health policy and advocacy research to investigate facilitators of productive aging across the adult lifespan. Dr. Marfeo's research specialization and clinical background as an occupational therapist allow her to bridge gaps between health services research and clinical applications of that research. Dr. Marfeo has expertise in both quantitative (using SAS, Excel, and SPSS software) and qualitative methods (focus groups, cognitive testing, and in-depth interviews). Dr. Marfeo uses both primary data collection and secondary analysis of national datasets in her research lab. Dr. Marfeo's interdisciplinary research approach integrates paradigms of disability, aging, public health, and rehabilitation sciences.
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- Professor
- Professor, Eliot - Pearson Department of Child Study & Human Development
Families and children in challenging circumstances; parenting and family functioning among diverse families; ethnic-racial socialization processes; cultural and contextual influences; child and youth outcomes; adoption and foster care
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- Associate Dean of Student Diversity, Inclusion, and Success
- Director of the Center for STEM Diversity
As Associate Dean of Student Diversity, Inclusion, and Success, Ellise leads the Division of Student Diversity and Inclusion, which is shared by both the School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering. The Division of Student Diversity and Inclusion includes the Center for STEM Diversity and the seven Identity-based Centers: Africana Center, Asian-American Center, FIRST Resource Center, Indigenous Center, Latinx Center, LGBT Center, and Women's Center. Both individually and collectively, the centers seek to promote understanding, community, and belonging across the Tufts communities. Ellise works on issues of diversity, inclusion, equity, and justice across the undergraduate student experience, from matriculation to graduation in collaboration with Admissions, Student Affairs, Student Services, Undergraduate Education and Advising and many other student-facing departments. She is also a Research Assistant Professor in the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) and an Institute for Research on Learning and Instruction (IRLI) collaborating staff member.
Ellise joined Tufts in 2018 as Director of the Center for STEM Diversity, where she was responsible for supporting a diverse population of students as they pursued undergraduate and graduate STEM degrees. Ellise led the Center's strategic direction and infrastructure, implemented programmatic offerings, and secured resources in support of the academic and personal success of students from underrepresented groups. She participated in and utilized best-practice research on broadening underrepresented student participation in science, technology, engineering, and math.
Prior to Tufts, Ellise was the Director of Academic Services at Olin College of Engineering and worked there with the Provost and faculty on financial, operational, and diversity and inclusion initiatives. Previously she spent three years with Babson College's Graduate School of Business Admissions office as the Director of Operations, where she managed reporting, event planning, and recruitment outreach efforts. Ellise was also the Director of the Commonwealth Institute's Women of Ethnic Diversity Initiative, supporting women entrepreneurs as they grew their businesses by recruiting women, implementing programs, and raising funds. Ellise holds a PhD in Education from University of Massachusetts, Boston.
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- Student, 6th Year ) Smith College
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor, Eliot - Pearson Department of Child Study & Human Development
child development; research practice partnerships; prosocial development; children's caregiving for family; school policies educational success
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- Associate Professor
- Graduate Program Director / Associate Professor of Biology
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- Department Associate Chair
- School Psychology Interim Director
- Senior Lecturer and Associate Chair
Special Education, human development, teaching and learning, adolescence, gender, equity in education, qualitative research methods, child and adolescent literature and literacy, writing
In her role as Secretary of the Faculty for the Schools of Arts, Sciences and Engineering, Erin supports the academic mission of the university, providing advice on faculty governance, and managing the processes that link the two schools to the Provost's office.
Prior to joining Tufts in 2017, Erin was the Assistant Director for Faculty Affairs at Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she managed faculty searches and oversaw multiple promotion and tenure processes. Earlier, she managed the faculty recruitment process for the MIT Skoltech Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Erin's experience in higher education administration and consulting roles includes career services, executive search, faculty recruitment, and management of standing processes related to hiring, promotion, and annual reporting. Erin earned her EdM in Higher Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education, and her BA in Sociology-based Human Relations from Connecticut College.
I approach my research through a lens of reflexivity, with an understanding that my own experiences and positions in the world have shaped the focus of my work. It is perhaps unsurprising, then, that as the effeminate child of a single mother, raised by a network of powerful women, with aspirations to raise children and in daycare throughout childhood, I was driven to study clinical and developmental psychology, as well as to deepen my studies of gender. I've always been fascinated by children and the relationships they co-construct with adults. For eight years I mostly focused on studying those raised outside of the context of a "traditional" family using (developmental) psychology lenses. My previous research projects demystified and reimagined Attachment Theory. We assessed the quality of Mexican public daycare settings -becoming the first study in Latin America that used the q-sort methodology to describe professional secondary caregiver-child interactions-; described parental sensitivity and attachment security in lesbian and gay parented families -an avant-garde project in testing the universality and the sensitivity hypothesis with other than heterosexual parents-, and centered the experiences of Black and Brown scholars to push the attachment field toward anti-racism. I lead a research team that analyzed the pedagogical function of legal protections of LGB individuals for promoting social changes, specifically the role of contact and comfort in shaping attitudes toward same-sex parenting in 15 countries. I also lead another group that examined parenting aspiration among folks with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities, and its association with internalized homo/transnegativity and community connectedness to the LGBTQ community -the first world-wide study including trans and plurisexual participants-. In Fall 2021, I joined the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University as an Assistant Professor. I dedicated my first months in the U.S. to wrap up ongoing projects in Latin America. In 2022, Dr. Ellen Pinderhughes asked me to conduct further analysis on their pioneering "Gay Fathers" dataset and lead an article. I decided to focus on Latinx gay fathers' pathways to parenthood, social stigma, helpfulness of social relationships and comfort being out (manuscript in progress). Now I had the resources to book an eye examination and renew my prescription. It turns out that my near vision ([developmental] psychology) was okay but I needed to correct my farsightedness. Since my times in my beloved Mexico City, I've been thinking that psychology is often a frustratingly narrow discipline which tends to privatize, individualize, and depoliticize the phenomena it studies (Kitzinger, 1995). Don't get me wrong, is not that we don't have top Optometrists in the Majority World, but now I had the privilege to be covered by an elite health insurance that allows me to choose a provider. Via by my Faculty Research Funds, and the Summer Scholars Program 2022, Office of the Provost, I led the project "How Do Children Identifying Beyond the Gender Binary and Their Parents Understand Gender?" To the best of my knowledge, no research team had directly asked 5-8 y/o non-binary (enby) children about what being enby means to them (i.e., a child-centered approach which prioritizes their experiences over adult-centric narratives). When recruiting for the aforementioned project, I learned about Trans formative Schools (TfS) and my life transformed. TfS is a new, progressive education initiative centering transness and social justice. We are a community of students, educators, and families whose collective mission is to support trans futures. To trans is a way of seeing and knowing; an epistemological position to produce dissident forms of knowledge (i.e., brand new prescription lenses). Our mission of transing education embodies the work of liberation through rigorous academics, joyful connections, identity exploration, and progressive practice. TfS seeks to move toward societal systemic change, equipping our students with the scaffolding to challenge racist, ableist, transphobic, transmisogynistic, and other white supremacist systems of oppression. TfS co-founder Alaina Daniels and I co-constructed a longitudinal research proposal to facilitate trans-led ways of building, identifying, and testing evidence in order to trans education by centering and uplifting trans people in the design, execution, and application of research as the practice of education is fundamentally a relational one. We will apply a Youth Participatory Action Research-mixed-methods approach to explore how a middle school, designed toward subverting the cis-supremacist systems that govern educational practice, impacts the belongingness, health, wellness, and learning outcomes of trans students and communities. Through this condensed overview of my past, present, and future as a researcher I intend to illustrate not only how my vision has changed and will keep changing, but my commitment to investigate how historical and contemporary structural inequalities disproportionately shape outcomes for marginalized folks, families, communities, and institutions that serve them.
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- Associate Professor Emerita
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- Professor of the Practice
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- Department Associate Chair
- Open Choice MS Program Director / Associate Professor of Biology
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- Associate Professor Emerita, International Literary and Cultural Studies
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- Senior Director of Research
Greta Loring is Senior Director of Research & New Product Planning at Alcresta Therapeutics. Prior to Alcresta, she was Director of Product Development at Enzymatics, where she led the development of enzymes and kits for next generation DNA sequencing and diagnostics. She previously worked on the development of oral enzyme therapeutics at Alnara Pharmaceuticals and Altus Pharmaceuticals. Ms. Loring earned her PhD in biochemistry at the University of Iowa and BS in biochemistry and molecular biology at Juniata College. She was a postdoctoral research associate at Dartmouth Medical School.
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- Professor Emeritus, Romance Studies
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- Associate Professor Emeritus
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- Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences / Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion for Arts and Sciences
As Dean of Academic Affairs, Heather supervises the chairs and directors of nearly half of the school's departments and programs. In addition, she supervises the faculty affairs staff who manage contracts, leaves, and human resources issues of our faculty. She is also responsible for leading key A&S initiatives including the accreditation process and negotiating union contract renewals. In addition, Heather represents Arts and Sciences on the university-wide Cabinet on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and specifically focuses on the needs and concerns of faculty and staff.
Before joining the Dean's Office, Heather joined the faculty at the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies in 2013. Explore her faculty profile.
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- Henry Bromfield Pearson Professor of Natural Science / Control of Locomotion and the Neural Processes That Organize Sensory and Motor Information
Control of locomotion and the neural processes that organize sensory and motor information
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- Mathematics
- Professor, Mathematics / Department
Theoretical perspectives on the integration of culture and human development; Narratives of identity and place in communities; Navigating multiple cultural worlds, with a focus on ethnic minority, immigrant, and under-represented communities; Interpretive and Narrative Analysis methods in the study of children and families.
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- Lecturer
- Lecturer, Religion / Department
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- Department of Community Health
- Professor / Community Health
- Professor, Community Health / Department
Dr. Allen's research focuses on the development, implementation, and evaluation of community-based interventions to prevent and control chronic disease (particularly cancer) in underserved populations, with an ultimate goal of reducing health disparities. Her work emphasizes community-based participatory approaches to identify community needs and build capacity to implement community-driven solutions. Her work also includes the design of innovative strategies for ensuring wide-scale and equitable dissemination of evidence-based interventions to address health disparities. She is currently working on a number of studies that involve the development and testing of web-applications and social media to disseminate health information.
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- Professor, the Fletcher School / Professor, Economics
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- Research Associate Professor
Child and family policy; program evaluation; home visiting and other family support programs
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- Associate Dean, Student Administrative Services
As the Associate Dean, Student Administrative Services, JoAnn is charged with overseeing and continually improving the work and operations of Student Services, the Office of the Registrar, and Information Technology for Admissions. She also works with campus partners to continually improve the student experience at Tufts.
JoAnn began her career in student services while earning a BA at North Adams State College. Her first job was working in financial aid at Boston University where she earned an MEd specializing in Higher Education Administration. JoAnn was recruited to Tufts from Bentley College more than 20 years ago to lead the Student Services Desk Team as part of Tufts' newly established Student Services organization.
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- Professor, Philosophy / Department
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- Biostatistician
- Professor and Chair / Department of Community Health
Dr. Fu is a biostatistician who has been teaching and studying biostatistics for two decades. He has innovatively applied advanced statistical methods to the studies of pressing issues in public health. His areas of interest in biostatistics include categorical data analysis, longitudinal data analysis, survival data analysis, and latent variable analysis. He views the population's health through a socioecological lens and has studied health determinants at different levels in society. His substantive areas of interest are in major depression and substance use disorders. His research addresses how genetic, behavioral, environmental, and societal factors contribute to major depression and substance dependence. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and Alzheimer's Association.
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- Research Associate Professor
I am a developmental scientist and Research Associate Professor at Tufts University in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development. With the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development (IARYD), I study positive youth development (PYD), seeking to understand what goes "right" in the lives of youth, by engaging in researcher-practitioner partnerships with youth-serving organizations around the world (currently Rwanda, Uganda, South Africa, and El Salvador). My research is broadly focused on character development--I am interested in how people become good people. With a focus on person-context relations across development, I also explore how good people shape, and are shaped by, good communities and cultures. Specifically, my work has focused on the potential role of forgiveness as a character strength and civic virtue. This interest has steered me toward working with individuals and organizations interested in peacebuilding and restorative justice, for instance, in Rwanda as well as the Boston area. Lessons learned from this work are timely and important for civil society and human flourishing, perhaps especially in an era of increasingly polarized social and political climates. Forgiveness, restorative justice, and peacebuilding seem to be linked by common threads of empathy, curiosity, generosity, listening, and dialogue, as well as critical thinking, personal responsibility, community action, and civic engagement. Please find my CV in LinkedIn for more information on my professional experiences, research grants, editorial and consulting activities, teaching experience, and publications.
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- Dean of Admissions & Enrollment Management
Joseph "JT" Duck serves as Dean of Admissions for the School of Arts and Sciences (including SMFA at Tufts) and the School of Engineering, overseeing both the undergraduate and graduate admissions offices.
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- Professor of Black Maternal Health, Administration
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- Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning and Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate
- Professor, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning
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- Senior Lecturer
- Senior Lecturer, Eliot - Pearson Department of Child Study & Human Development / Lecturer, Public Health and Community Medicine / Senior Lecturer, Tisch College
Children and media; ethnicity/gender and media; adolescents and media use. I am currently working on a three-tiered interdisciplinary research project along with Chip Gidney, Mary Casey, and Cynthia Smith at Eliot-Pearson, as well as faculty in several other departments at Tufts. The first piece of this project is a long-running content analysis of children's animated programming. We are updating prior work we've done that investigates images of race, ethnicity and gender in children's animated programming using both content and sociolinguistic analysis. The second part of this research is an exploration of why stereotyping persists in children's media. We are examining this through intensive interviews with content creators, writers, directors, vocal casting directors, and actors. The third part of the project is empirical research we're conducting with children, to see how children make sense of gender, race, and ethnicity in the animated programs they see. My applied work includes doing many media literacy workshops for parents and for children and for children in a variety of settings, and consulting work with colleagues at WGBH, one of the leading creators of children's educational media. I have written about children and media issues in a variety of academic and popular venues. My other research is historical in nature. I've written one biography of the relatively unknown mother/daughter team who made Emily Dickinson into one of the most-known women anywhere in the world, and am starting work on a couple of other biographical projects.
Julie Dobrow has an A.B. from Smith College in Anthropology and Sociology, and holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in media studies from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Much of her research centers on the content and effects of media on children; on issues of gender and ethnicity in media; and on how children make sense of these images in the world of animated programming. Dobrow's other main research interests are in the intersection of women's history and communication studies, and in biography.
Her book, After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America's Greatest Poet, was published by WW Norton and Company in 2018. Her upcoming second dual biography, Crossing Indian Country: From the Wounded Knee Massacre to the Unlikely Marriage of Elaine Goodale and Ohíye'Sa, Charles Alexander Eastman, profiles the interracial marriage and work of two late 19th/early 20th century writers and Indian reformers. Dobrow is the co-PI of the Half the History Project, which archives and disseminates untold and under-told stories of women's lives through short-form biography, film and podcast. Dobrow has worked professionally as a journalist and runs workshops on media literacy training for parents, teachers, and students. She has written a blog on children and media issues for the Huffington Post, in addition to writing freelance pieces for the Boston Globe Magazine and other publications.
Dobrow's work at Tisch College focuses on developing and teaching courses in the area of Civic Media, mentoring Tisch College faculty, advising students in the Civic Studies major, coordinating internships for students that focus on issues of media and civic engagement, and putting on events such as the annual Edward R. Murrow Forum on Issues and Journalism.
Outside of Tufts, Dobrow has volunteered extensively on town boards and committees in her community in educational and environmental realms. She also serves as president of the Boston Authors Club.
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- Associate Professor Emerita
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- Biology
- Professor Emerita
- Professor Emerita, Biology
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- Administrative Coordinator
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- Research Associate Professor
Arts, music and drama education and its impact on youth development in formal and informal settings; the development of arts programming to support positive development, cultural identity and resilience among youths in underserved communities; arts and social justice; family influences on children's learning and social development; quantitative and qualitative methods of research and mixed methods designs; program evaluation
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- Student, 2nd Year ) University of Colorado Boulder
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- Biology Course Coordinator
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- Associate Dean of Student Accessibility and Academic Resources
As Associate Dean of Student Accessibility and Academic Resources, Kirsten oversees the day to day management of the StAAR Center. The StAAR Center offers academic resource support to all students in the form of academic coaching, writing support, subject tutoring and academic and non-academic accommodation support for students with disabilities. Kirsten also works closely with and educates campus partners, including faculty, to ensure that each aspect of the collegiate experience is inclusive for all.
Kirsten is co-author of the book Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education (West Virginia University Press, 2018). She is also an adjunct professor at Suffolk University, where she cofounded and teaches in the graduate certificate program on disability services in higher education. Kirsten received her BA from Bates College and her MA from Boston University.
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- Professor and Department Chair of Music
- Professor, Music / Chair, Music / Department
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- Lecturer
- Lecturer, Romance Studies / Department
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- Senior Lecturer
- Senior Lecturer, Romance Studies / Department
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- Director, Department of Evaluation and Learning at Jewish Family and Children 's Service
Laura is an evaluator with expertise in research methods and management in nonprofit settings. She is currently the Director of the Department of Evaluation and Learning at a human service agency in Boston.
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- Youniss Family Assistant Professor of Innovation
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- Assistant Professor / Community Health
- Department of Community Health
Social epidemiology, health policy, population aging, work/retirement, mental health
Dr. Abrams is a population health and aging researcher. She came to Tufts from the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies where she was a Sloan Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Abrams' research and teaching interests include social epidemiology, health policy, population aging, mortality trends, work/retirement, and mental health.
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- Administrative Assistant to Dean James Glaser, Dean Bárbara Brizuela and Dean Christopher Helmuth
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- Program Director, Post - Bac Programs
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- Lecturer
- Lecturer, Eliot - Pearson Department of Child Study & Human Development / Department
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- Lecturer
- Lecturer, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts / Department
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- Lecturer
- Lecturer, Philosophy / Department
Developmental risk and resilience; child maltreatment; parent-child emotional availability and attachment relationships; maternal depression; adolescent parenting; relational and contextual supports for thriving
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- Lecturer
- Lecturer, International Literary and Cultural Studies / Department
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- Senior Lecturer
- Senior Lecturer, International Literary and Cultural Studies / Department
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- Distinguished Senior Lecturer
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- Research Assistant Professor
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- Senior Director of Development
As Senior Director of Development, Matt Scheck leads fundraising for the School of Arts and Sciences, managing key fundraising staff focused on major gifts, SMFA at Tufts, Hillel and Athletics. He brings nearly 20 years of management and development experience to the role, from UC Berkeley, Manhattanville College. He joined the A&D development team in 2013. He received his BA in Philosophy and English from Colby College, and a Master's in Public Administration from the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
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- Administrative Coordinator, Communications and Community Building
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- Associate Director of Research and Evaluation at NICHQ
Meera received her Ph.D. from Eliot-Pearson in 2019 and now works as a Associate Director at NICHQ. In her role, Meera contributes to applied research initiatives focused on ensuring children's optimal health.
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- Associate Dean and Senior Director, Tufts Global Education
As Associate Dean and Senior Director of Tufts Global Education, Mala oversees Tufts Programs Abroad, external study abroad programs, global partnerships for custom student programs, visiting international exchange students, and faculty-led courses abroad. Mala works closely with partners across the University on global initiatives and international operations.
Mala joined Tufts in June 2019 from MIT, where she was Managing Director for MIT-India, part of the MIT International Science & Technology Initiatives. Prior to working at MIT, Mala was Associate Director with Intrax Education Abroad in San Francisco and Program Manager at PVA Educational Consultants in Palo Alto where she developed international programs for universities and non-profits. As Coordinator of Multicultural Affairs and Multicultural Center at Bates College, and through her work as the Graduate Women's Coordinator at Stanford University she focused on student affairs and DEI. She held multiple roles at the Women of Color Resource Center in Berkeley connecting grassroots organizers with academic research and global partners. She holds a MA from Stanford University and a BA from Bates College.
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- Laboratory Services Coordinator
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- Department Manager, Certification Officer
DNA repair, DNA damage tolerance, molecular biology, Drosophila genetics, aging, mutagenesis
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- Senior Lecturer Emeritus, International Literary and Cultural Studies / Department
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- Lecturer
- Lecturer, Music / Department
Hello! My name is Nathan Moreno, and I am a Medford local double majoring in biology and computer science. I have strong interests in computational biology, synthetic biology, and astrobiology. During my time on campus, I have worked as a BIO 13 Lab TA and currently I am contributing to a computational project at the Allen Discovery Center. Additionally, I am an e-board member of the Society of Latinx Engineers and Scientists. I am excited to connect with other students interested in biology and help them navigate their experience with our department.
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- Assistant Dean for Diversity and Inclusion and Julia a. Okoro Professor of Black Maternal Health and Associate Professor
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- Student, 4th Year ) University of Wisconsin - Madison
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- Lecturer / Music
- Lecturer, Music / Department
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- Associate Professor Emerita, Sociology
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- Multimedia Project Manager
Animal Behavior: Recognition systems, evolution of sociality, parasite and host relationships, behavioral & chemical communication, invasion genetics
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- Professor of the Practice / School of the Museum
- Professor of the Practice, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts / Department
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- Associate Professor
- History
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- Senior Lecturer
- Senior Lecturer, International Literary and Cultural Studies / Department
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- Lecturer
- Lecturer, Economics / Department
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- Lecturer / Chemistry
- Lecturer, Chemistry / Department
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- Research Associate Professor
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- Professor and Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science
- Professor, Eliot - Pearson Department of Child Study & Human Development
The application of developmental science across the life span; developmental systems theory; personality and social development in adolescence; developmental methodology; programs and policies for children, youth, and families; university-community collaboration and outreach scholarship. Developmental Science
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- Administrative Assistant to Dean Scheri Fultineer
Robert Martone is a research scientist with deep expertise in neurodegeneration, neuro-oncology, biomarkers and drug discovery. He investigated hereditary neuropathies and the molecular biology of the blood brain barrier at Columbia University, and subsequently managed a portfolio of drug discovery programs at Wyeth Neuroscience targeting Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. He was the Neuroscience Therapeutic Area Lead for the Covance Biomarker Center of Excellence, and later established a protein biomarker laboratory at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. More recently, he was Director of Pre-Clinical Research at Cognition Therapeutics. He is now supporting late stage biomarker and diagnostics efforts at Biogen. He has collaborated with and advised government and non-profit organizations in the field including the NINDS, the Michael J. Fox Foundation, the Alzheimer's Association and ILSI-HESI. His interests include renaissance Italian literature, and his translations have been published by Italica Press (Renaissance Comic Tales of Love Treachery & Revenge, and Antonio Manetti's The Fat Woodworker.)
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- Associate Professor Emeritus
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- Lecturer
- Lecturer, Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
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- Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences / Professor of Chemistry
As Dean of Academic Affairs, Sam supervises a large portfolio of department chairs and program directors. In addition, he supervises the staff in the AS&E Undergraduate Education division including the departments of Undergraduate Advising, Global Education, International Programs and Partnerships, and the StAAR Center.
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- Professor of the Practice, English / Department
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor, Eliot - Pearson Department of Child Study & Human Development
Adolescence and young adulthood; identity development; civic development and engagement; youth contribution; critical consciousness; quantitative methods (including mixture models such as latent class and latent profile analyses); positive youth development
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- Dean of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts / Professor of the Practice
As Dean of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Scheri oversees all operations at SMFA at Tufts. She works closely with faculty and staff across the university to forge curricular and co-curricular connections between and among artists and other academic practitioners. Scheri joined the SMFA faculty in 2023. Explore her faculty profile.
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- Research Assistant Professor
- Scientist III
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- Professor and White Family Chair in Biology
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- Senior Lecturer / Department of Community Health
Dr. Tendulkar's interests include community-based participatory research, program evaluation, community interventions research and health disparities research and interventions work with immigrant and minority communities. She has a particular interest in research and evaluation projects done in partnership with communities and community-based organizations and encourages students to critically assess and be mindful of the translation of research and evaluation into practice.
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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- Implementation Lead at Panorama Education
Sophie's role focuses on using data to improve the lives of children and families in the United States, with a specific focus on the social-emotional health and development of young children.
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- Psychology
- Stibel Family Assistant Professor of Brain and Cognitive Science / Psychology
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- Assistant Professor / Community Health
- Department of Community Health
structural racism and racial/ethnic health disparities across the lifespan social support networks of older adults caregiving and dementia social determinants of healthy aging dyadic analysis
Dr. Ali is a social epidemiologist. Dr. Ali's research interests include (1) examining the impact of structural racism on racial/ethnic disparities in cognitive aging and dementia; (2) investigating the role of social support networks for physical and cognitive health in late life; and (3) caregiving networks of older adults with and without dementia.
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- Professor and Department Chair of Child Study & Human Development
- Professor, Eliot - Pearson Department of Child Study & Human Development / Professor, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning / Chair, Eliot - Pearson Department of Child Study & Human Development
Neighborhood and community context; housing context; family context; poverty and socioeconomic status; social policy; adolescence; immigrant young children
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- Assistant Program Manager for Child Services at MGH Aspire
Taylor is an experienced group leader and emerging program manager with a demonstrated history of working in the healthcare and education industries.
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- Lecturer
- Lecturer, Occupational Therapy
Adolescence and young adulthood; identity development; personality development; narrative identity; quantitative methods (including structural equation models)
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- Associate Professor
- Physics & Astronomy
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- Senior Director of Administration
Working closely with the Executive Administrative Dean, the Director of Administration provides oversight on all administrative and financial matters pertaining to the school including policy development, employee compensation and equity, and facility management. Tony and his colleagues help ensure that school resources-financial, physical, and human capital-are allocated in a manner that coincides with the strategic plans of both the school and university. Tony also serves on several University-wide committees pertaining to Human Resources, IT, and space & facilities management.
Tony joined Tufts in 2011. From 2011-2015 Tony served as Budget Fiscal Officer in the University's Central Finance Office and from 2015-2016 served as Director of Budget Services at Tufts for AS&E. Before coming to Tufts, he spent six years at Genzyme Corporation within the Personalized Genetic Health finance team, and seven years in banking, mainly with State Street Corporation's Wealth Management Services division. He has an MBA from Boston College and a BS in Business Management from Ithaca College.
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- Student, 5th Year ) Regis College
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- Distinguished Senior Lecturer
Will McLean is a co-founder and the vice president of biology and regenerative medicine at Frequency Therapeutics. As an undergraduate, McLean studied biology at Tufts University before going on to attain a Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology within the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. While at MIT, his doctoral research elucidated the distinct progenitor cell types that exist within the inner ear and their capacity to form sensory cells and neural cell types. As a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, Will investigated the use of small-molecule drugs to manipulate molecular signaling pathways to promote regeneration of inner ear sensory cells. Frequency Therapeutics is now using insights from Will's work to develop drugs to drive regeneration throughout the body, with a lead program in treating hearing loss by regenerating lost sensory cells. Beyond an application in hearing loss, Frequency is developing a pipeline of regenerative products for applications in multiple sclerosis, diabetes, skin, and gastrointestinal diseases. Will's work has led to 30 patent filings, and he has been recognized as an IDEA2 awardee by Harvard-MIT, a leader in Regenerative Medicine and Cell Therapy by Sartorius and Science, a 40 Under Forty Business Leader by the Hartford Business Journal, and one of the top 35 Innovators Under 35 by MIT Technology Review.
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- Usen Family Career Development Assistant Professor